Tomcat from Root

[guggi2000]

We have an annoying historical situation:

We have static files as follows:
/
/folder1
/folder2...

And the Tomcat WebApp under:
/webApp

We forward every request under /webApp from Apache to the tomcat container with mod_jk

On the homepage "example.com/index.html" we use an ugly FRAME to include a full html (originally a jsp) from the webApp because we need some webApp (Tomcat) functionaly on the homepage. So the Frame's source points "/webApp/main.jsp"

Is there a nicer way to do it? We are concerned about SEO.

I am not sure Rewrites will work because they will drop the Tomcat functionality because it looks at the page as an html, for example the Jsession may be ignored.

[phranque]

try using mod_headers:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_headers.html [httpd.apache.org]

you can change any cookie paths as required using the "Header edit Set-Cookie" syntax.
(this is most likely the cause of your lost tomcat functionality with an internal rewrite.)

[guggi2000]

@Phranque Thanks. We thought about it too because the tomcat cookie path is set to /webApp. We need to set them all to root /.

Some questions nonetheless:

- Isn't there a way to do it in Tomcat instead of Apache?

- Can you think of other issues related to a Rewrite (to Apache) in the background?